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People
Current and past research projects are listed on the Research page.
The sea ice group at the University of Otago, 2023.
From left: Greg, Nico, Jed, Andrew, Andrea, Maren, Inga, Nina, Pat, Ben.
| Current Members | Research Speciality | |||
| Prof Pat Langhorne | Professor Emerita | Sea ice physics | ||
Associate Professor |
Antarctic sea ice formation processes |
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| Dr Greg Leonard | Senior Lecturer | Sea ice satellite remote sensing and measurements | ||
| Dr Andrew Pauling | Research Fellow | Sea ice and climate modelling |
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| Dr Max Thomas | Research Fellow | Sea ice and climate modelling | ||
| Andrea Foley | Assistant Research Fellow | Physics Antarctic Ice Lab management and support | ||
| Nina Caldarella | PhD student | Frazil ice modelling and acoustic observations | ||
| Antonia Radlwimmer | PhD student | Polar meteorology and oceanography | ||
| Recent Members | Projects | |||
| Dr Maren Richter | PhD 2023 | Frazil ice, fast-ice thickness, and interannual variability | ||
| Dr Julia Wilson | Research Fellow | Vision Mātauranga and sea ice | ||
| Tarentaise McLeod | MSc 2022 | Estimating the snow depth in sea ice using acoustic and laser sensors | ||
| Dr Pete Russell | Research Fellow 2019-2022 | Supercooling measurements under ice shelves (PI: Inga Smith) | ||
| Kate Turner | Assistant Research Fellow 2019-2021 |
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| Dr Shona Mackie | Research Fellow 2018-2020 |
Impacts of freshwater from icebergs and ice shelf melt in the New Zealand Earth System Model (PI: Inga Smith); Targeted observation and process-informed modelling of Antarctic sea ice (TOPIMASI) (PI: Pat Langhorne) |
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| Dr Alena Malyarenko |
PhD 2020
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Ice shelf – ocean boundary interaction |
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| Eamon Frazer |
MSc 2019 |
Characterising Frazil Ice Populations using Acoustic Techniques |
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| Dr Pat Wongpan |
PhD 2018 MSc 2013 |
Columnar ice versus platelet ice: differences, consequences, and significance Voronoi dynamics simulation of platelet sea ice growth with diffusive heat and mass transfer |
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| Prof Cecilia Bitz | Visiting scientist 2013-2014 (Fulbright US Scholar Award Recipient) |
Research collaboration topic: Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding? | ||
| Andrew Pauling | MSc 2017 | Simulation of the effect of ice shelf melt around Antarctica in an Earth System Model | ||
| Dr Stefan Jendersie | PhD 2016 | Drivers and dynamics of the Ross Sea | ||
| Ken Hughes | MSc 2013 | Propagation of an ice shelf water plume beneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica | ||
| Dr Alex Gough | PhD 2012 | Sea ice near an ice shelf | ||
| Dr Craig Purdie | PhD 2012 | Winter sea ice growth in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica | ||
| Dr Natalie Robinson | PhD 2012 | Circulation, mixing and interactions in the ocean near the Ross Ice Shelf | ||
| Assoc Prof Takenobu Toyota | Visiting scientist 2011 (NZ/JSPS Senior Scientist Exchange Recipient) |
Study on wave-sea ice interaction in the marginal sea ice zone and its relation with the floe size distribution | ||
| Dr Andy Mahoney | Postdoc 2008–2010 |
Winter sea ice growth processes | ||
| Dr Ed Kempema | Visiting scientist 2005–2006 |
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| Dr Chris Petrich | PostDoc 2005-2006 PhD 2005 |
Fluid dynamics simulations of sea ice formation. Experiments on refreezing cracks in sea ice. | ||
| Dr Greg Leonard | PostDoc 2002-2005 | Sea ice and platelet ice formation in McMurdo Sound and their correlation with oceanographic conditions. | ||
| Dr Inga Smith | PhD 2002 | Platelet ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. | ||
| Dr Martin Gribble | PhD 2002 | Cyclic and creep properties of sea ice. | ||
| Dr Paul Bond | PhD 2001 | Optical characteristics of saline ice. | ||
| David Dempsey | MSc 2008 | Observations and modelling of platelet ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica | ||
| Daisuke Yamagishi | MSc 2008 | Experimental study of phase change in rapidly growing sea ice. | ||
| Nicole Albrecht | MSc 2006 | Internal gravity waves in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. | ||
| Marc Müller-Stoffels | MSc 2006 | Preferred crystal orientations in freshwater ice sheets. | ||
| Ben Tuckey | MSc 2002 | Brine convection in sea ice. | ||
| Heike Merkel | Visitor 2008–2009 |
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| Lisa Hahn-Woernle | MSc/International Internship 2011 |
Thermodynamic modelling of platelet ice crystal development. |